How To Use Intelligible In A Sentence

The papyri are broken and illegible; you must assemble an intelligible jigsaw from jagged fragments, truncated lines and eroded ink. Times, Sunday Times
With these prohibitions should be connected the somewhat unintelligible fact that the most pious Caliphs sat upon thrones (_mimbar_, "president's chair") of clay. Christianity and Islam
The result is a totally incoherent agglomeration of speech-forms -- a baragouin fantastic and unintelligible beyond the power of anyone to imagine who has not heard it .... Two Years in the French West Indies
The younger you are, it seems the less intelligence is passed down, thus the decline in intelligible television. The Current State Of Science Fiction On Tv
We reserve the right to edit all letters so that all the nasty, unintelligible bits get taken out.

For the reason why the definition is rendered is to make known the term stated, and we make things known by taking not any random terms, but such as are prior and more intelligible, as is done in demonstrations (for so it is with all teaching and learning); accordingly, it is clear that a man who does not define through terms of this kind has not defined at all. Topics
Thus Philo Judaeus may equate the hy - ponoia of a text with its latent theme, its mystery, its secret, its unexpressed, unseen, nonliteral, or simply intelligible meaning. Dictionary of the History of Ideas
Instead we must turn to what is intelligible: the values, beliefs and ideas revealed by art.
Which is why he mumbled something unintelligible instead. The Sun
That name will live in infamy for as long as the US continues to exist; the most unintelligible moron to ever foul the Oval Office, as well as the worst president in US history. Think Progress » DC Media Scoff At President Obama’s Substantive And Detailed Answer To Health Care Question
Another personality was Harry Hemsley, who had a little boy who spoke in an unintelligible gabble, but was understood perfectly well by his elder sister.
But he had difficulty breathing and his speech was almost unintelligible. The Sun
The language of Darwin was intelligible to experts and non-experts alike.
Here now is the extreme limit of all moral inquiry, and it is of great importance to determine it even on this account, in order that reason may not on the one hand, to the prejudice of morals, seek about in the world of sense for the supreme motive and an interest comprehensible but empirical; and on the other hand, that it may not impotently flap its wings without being able to move in the (for it) empty space of transcendent concepts which we call the intelligible world, and so lose itself amidst chimeras. Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals. Third Section: Transition from Metaphysic of Morals to the Critique of Pure Practical Reason.
As characterized by Vargha-Khadem's team, the affected KE's speech is effortful, “sometimes agrammatical and often unintelligible” (Watkins et al. 2002: 453), and shows impairments not just in morphosyntax (e.g., regular plural and past tense endings) but also in the formation of irregular past tenses Innateness and Language
This canteen (with a funnel on its top, like a cavalier cap slouched over the eyes) was set on edge upon the puncheon, with the hole toward myself; and through this hole, which seemed puckered up like the mouth of a very precise old maid, the creature was emitting certain rumbling and grumbling noises which he evidently intended for intelligible talk. Archive 2008-12-01
The soul forms in itself likenesses of things inasmuch as, through the light of agent intellect, forms abstracted from sensible objects are made actually intelligible, so as to be received in the possible intellect.
On the record and live, Jon's vocals are almost unintelligible through guitarist Jared Burke Eglington's extreme riffage.
Czech and Slovak are separate languages but they are mutually intelligible.
I plowed through this text in my bedroom late at night, while the unintelligible garble of the downstairs television kept me abreast of my parents' assured position in front of it.
Mr. GOLD: The particular percussion on that is (unintelligible), which are known as a Senegalese instrument, but it's part of what Toumani's saying, which is part of this (unintelligible) empire idea, whereas the (unintelligible) were very much from part of the Malian music as well. Diabate's Orchestra Showcases Sounds of Mali
He was doing something almost unintelligible in terms of British political culture yet central to that of the US. Times, Sunday Times
This may have arisen from the fact that Paine's doctrine was much more plain and intelligible to the common people: it was operatical and proposed immediate excision; that is, it advocated the total overthrow of monarchy, and the establishment of republicanism. The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria
It was obviously written for the children or grandchildren of the mosstroopers whose exploits it glorifies, a generation to whom appeals to a higher code than their ancestors accepted would have been wholly unintelligible.
On the repetition of this same experience we were forced to the supposition that there is an _intimate bond, with laws of its own, between the unintelligible and complicated nature of the dream and the difficulties attending communication of the thoughts connected with the dream_. Dream Psychology Psychoanalysis for Beginners
She says that all you do is burp, fart, dribble, grin inanely and emit a series if unintelligible noises.
I could almost see the unintelligible vocabulary of academia flying over their heads. Christianity Today
The idea that some Colonel Sanders type in a society that forbid slaves from reading would write to his former fieldhand and expect an intelligible reply is absurd. Rad Geek People's Daily
But the physicist is at a disadvantage in this respect on account of the very specialized nature of his work, which cannot be made intelligible without an intensive preliminary course of study. Paul A.M. Dirac - Banquet Speech
Video showing rapid and intensive change, for example, will need frequent reference frames to maintain an intelligible motion sequence.
But, unaware as I am that this is my real goal, my dissatisfaction will remain diffuse and unintelligible to me.
The special history of literary transcendence is ultimately unintelligible and idiosyncratic; its meticulous particularity, a refusal of judgment.
Out of what you call the despicable race of Negroes, debased, demoralized by two hundred years of slavery, 100,000 of them imported into the island within four years, unable to speak a dialect intelligible even to each other. History of the American Negro in the Great World War His Splendid Record in the Battle Zones of Europe; Including a Resume of His Past Services to his Country in the Wars of the Revolution, of 1812, the War of Rebellion, the Indian Wars on the Frontier, t
Intelligible extension, then, is just the idea of geometrical extension and its properties, or what in the seventeenth-century came to be known as the ˜primary qualities.™ Malebranche's Theory of Ideas and Vision in God
The hurricane of 1938 followed a path that is perfectly intelligible, in retrospect. Ice Time: Climate, Science, and Life on Earth
To me it is unintelligible that the full tide of glibbest chatter can be stopped at a moment in the midst of profuse good living, and the Given thanked becomingly in words of heartfelt praise. Doctor Thorne
It has now been shown, though most briefly and imperfectly, how the law that "_Every species has come into existence coincident both in time and space with a pre-existing closely allied species_," connects together and renders intelligible a vast number of independent and hitherto unexplained facts. Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection A Series of Essays
Do not coin terms that are intelligible to nobody.
Apparently Thais don't trill their tongue skillfully enough to produce an intelligible ‘r’ sound.
The warmer the lake is at the end of the year as winter comes in, the more snowfall we're going to get because we're in the lake effects (unintelligible) snow area. Predicting The Weather Not Always High-Tech
The pope sanctioned it, on condition that the Protestants would abide by its decisions and submit their credenda in concise, intelligible form. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
To make it more intelligible, ironically, photojournalism is often deconstructed as art.
Nick chuckles, and Jonnie guesses from the next muffled, unintelligible words that the pair are now kissing.
In this way More sought to demonstrate that the idea of incorporeal substance, or spirit, was as intelligible as that of corporeal substance, i.e. body.
MAMOUDOU CONDE, LES PERCUSSIONS DE GUINEE: The real name of jembe is unity, and that's why anywhere in Guinea, whether in the village or in the city, if (UNINTELLIGIBLE), everyone together, the female, the younger -- everybody. CNN Transcript Feb 22, 2003
And how did they come to interrelate with one another so as to make possible a coherent, intelligible universe?
All further ideas about it, such as the oneness or manyness of the spiritual substance on which it is based, are therefore void of intelligible meaning; and propositions touching such ideas may be indifferently affirmed or denied. The Varieties of Religious Experience
His lecture was readily intelligible to all the students.
I remember an occasion when all the musicians began to breathe at ease on my taking this piece at the true moderate pace: then the humorous sforzato of the basses and bassoons at once produced an intelligible effect; the short crescendi became clear, the delicate pianissimo close was effective, and the gentle gravity of the returning principal movement was properly felt. On Conducting (Üeber Das Dirigiren) : a Treatise on Style in the Execution of Classical Music,
On the other hand, where there is no intelligible standard and where the legislature has given a plenary discretion to do whatever seems best in a wide set of circumstances, there is no ‘limit prescribed by law’.
What Descartes missed, according to Norris, was the distinction between God as intelligible, or exhibitive, and God as intelligent, or conceptive (Miscellanies 440, Theory I 357-358). Motherly Advice
But if the simple claim that a work is good because comical is thus intelligible, comicality is a general criterion for aesthetic value, and the principle that articulates that generality is true. The Concept of the Aesthetic
As he did so, he heard Angel One's harsh voice shout something unintelligible.
I have here instanced in the corpuscularian Hypothesis, as that which is thought to go farthest in an intelligible Explication of the Qualities of Bodies; and I fear the Weakness of humane Understanding is scarce able to substitute another, which will afford us a fuller and clearer discovery of the necessary Connexion, and Locke's Philosophy of Science
Do not coin terms that are intelligible to nobody.
Well, there's ironically post-modern and then there's almost unintelligible.
RITA HABEBE, TOUR OPERATOR MAGIC LIBYA: And (UNINTELLIGIBLE) think (ph) about Libya and Tripoli itself has seen a bit of a boomtown. CNN Transcript Dec 14, 2002
And there's something called insourcing now is the (UNINTELLIGIBLE) influence to that, right? CNN Transcript May 3, 2004
Plus there are some seriously cheesy synth lines and fake handclaps etc that would make Lil Jon run from the room in embarrassment (maybe shouting something unintelligible as he did).
If there are no intelligible or describable social processes, then there may be progress, but there will be no sociology and no _methods of progress_. Introduction to the Science of Sociology
A computer description of a garbled or otherwise unintelligible sequence of signals or other data.
It will help to make intelligible the subtle and variable theories which follow, if it be premised that the Scholastics are apt to puzzle readers by mixing up with their philosophy of reason a real or apparent apriorism, which is called Augustinianism, Platonism, or The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery
A major obstacle to understanding is the use of technical jargon which is unintelligible to the buyer.
Gautier could cast himself as a seeker of truth unencumbered by alliances with established scientists, a doubter who discovered faults in prevailing theories but was prevented from receiving the acclaim he deserved. reference The presentation in Chroa-génésie is so convoluted that it is unintelligible without a good knowledge of the physics and mathematics that render its deficiencies obvious. The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe
So whereas one of them says, "Fundus animae meae tangit fundum essentiae Dei," it had certainly been better for him to have kept his apprehensions or fancy to himself, than to express himself in words which in their own proper sense are blasphemous, and whose best defensative is that they are unintelligible. Pneumatologia
They do their best to make science intelligible to young children.
She found his motives perfectly intelligible.
The policy of Barak, then, to have the presence of the prophetess is perfectly intelligible as it would no less stimulate the valor of the troops, than sanction, in the eyes of Israel, the uprising against an oppressor so powerful as Jabin. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
As Sartre once noted, "The existentialist finds it extremely embarrassing that God does not exist, for there disappears with him all possibility of finding values in an intelligible heaven."
The psi-trickster element in ufology renders that field of inquiry even more marginal, dangerous, and repulsive to anyone who aspires to rational and intelligible forms of life and thought.
She could hear her mother-in-law continue speaking but the words were unintelligible and seemed to come from a far-off distance. ANGELS EVERYWHERE
Then you go on to, "lambast," him for writing what you said is basically unintelligible. For the Sake of Argument
Here was he, the individual, very possibly placed on -- at all events, infesting -- a particular planet for a considerable number of years; the planet was so elaborately constructed, so richly clothed with trees and valleys and uplands and running waters and multitudinary grass-blades, and the body that housed Felix Kennaston was so intricately wrought with tiny bones and veins and sinews, with sockets and valves and levers, and little hairs which grew upon the body like grass-blades about the earth, that it seemed unreasonable to suppose this much cunning mechanism had been set agoing aimlessly: and so, he often wondered if he was not perhaps expected to devote these years of human living to some intelligible purpose? The Cream of the Jest: A Comedy of Evasions
I hope that the Israelis will really understand the importance of holding these Palestinian elections, because failure to do these elections will mean (UNINTELLIGIBLE) sliding further and further toward chaos, lawlessness, militias, violence and counterviolence. CNN Transcript Nov 14, 2004
If information is data in intelligible (or translatable) form, it must be something the information processor (in this case, the moth) can make use of for its own survival or to guide its own processes. Death of a popular anti-ID argument
Video showing rapid and intensive change, for example, will need frequent reference frames to maintain an intelligible motion sequence.
Horton claims, further, that Pauline eschatology not only avoids Nietzsche's and Derrida's critiques of dualism, but also gives theology an intelligible way of talking about eschatology.
The paper contained a few words of perfectly unintelligible text.
Therefore one kind of substance can be defined and formulated, i.e. the composite kind, whether it be perceptible or intelligible; but the primary parts of which this consists cannot be defined, since a definitory formula predicates something of something, and one part of the definition must play the part of matter and the other that of form. Metaphysics
For the last year or so of his life, he never uttered one intelligible word or showed the slightest sign of knowing who or where he was.
It wasn't quite the same as when a sorcerer used high level spells, but the words were still unintelligible.
We need an explanation that is readily intelligible to ordinary people.
The French-speaking conquerors of 1066 found none of this intelligible: to their ears Anglo-Saxon was barbaric and uncouth.
Lastly, the law of the long endurance of allied forms on the same continent, -- of marsupials in Australia, of edentata in America, and other such cases, -- is intelligible, for within a confined country, the recent and the extinct will naturally be allied by descent. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life
For though one should speak ten thousand words well, if there happen to be one little word displeasing to you, because not sufficiently intelligible or accurate, you make no account of the many good words, but lay hold of the little word, and are very zealous in setting it up as something impious and guilty; in order that, when you are judged with the very same judgment by God, you may have a much heavier account to render for your great audacities, whether evil actions, or bad interpretations which you obtain by falsifying the truth. ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus
I speak according to the foregoing definition, by which the affirmativeness or negativeness of any quantity implies a relation to another quantity of the same kind to which it {204} is added, or from which it is subtracted; for it may perhaps be very clear and intelligible to those who have formed to themselves some other idea of affirmative and negative quantities different from that above defined. A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I (of II)
He then, in cant terms, with which his whole conversation was plentifully besprinkled, but which would be quite unintelligible if they were recorded here, demanded a glass of liquor. Oliver Twist
Both are brief and although the criticisms of Hegel are clearly intelligible, the statements constituting the “new philosophy” are often rhetorical and aphoristic, which is one of the reasons they are often judged to be unsatisfactory as philosophy. Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach
When you begin taking the term flood, if you try to (unintelligible) it so many ways as the insurance companies have, it's going to be ambiguous. Defining "Flood," with Billions at Stake
“Take a glass of wine, Sir Arthur, and drink down that bead-roll of unbaptized jargon, that would choke the devil — why, that last fellow has the only intelligible name you have repeated — they are all of the tribe of Macfungus — mushroom monarchs every one of them; sprung up from the fumes of conceit, folly, and falsehood, fermenting in the brains of some mad Highland seannachie.” The Antiquary
His sleep was restless, and every so often he mumbled a few unintelligible words.
Here now is the extreme limit of all moral inquiry, and it is of great importance to determine it even on this account, in order that reason may not on the one band, to the prejudice of morals, seek about in the world of sense for the supreme motive and an interest comprehensible but empirical; and on the other hand, that it may not impotently flap its wings without being able to move in the (for it) empty space of transcendent concepts which we call the intelligible world, and so lose itself amidst chimeras. The Afghan Tragedy
Plato's attempt to argue for the split between the intelligible and sensible world in Books VI and VII of the Republic may well be a protreptic directed at Archytas, who refused to separate numbers from things. Archytas
The reply, a weird breathing sound, and an unintelligible, totally alien jabbering.
We have what they call a regional task force, a regional terrorist group, not only of the officers in Philadelphia, but we're linked up with the FBI, the surrounding areas, everyone working together, which makes it (ph) very important with the idea that if we can get intelligence with (UNINTELLIGIBLE) be (ph) exactly in Philadelphia, but if it's in surrounding areas. CNN Transcript Jan 17, 2002
Attendees are guaranteed that at least one-third of all words used will be intelligible to the general public.
The individual cannot make himself intelligible to anybody.
My whole mind whirled around me, thinking so many thoughts that I couldn't distinguish anything intelligible.
Take a glass of wine, Sir Arthur, and drink down that bead-roll of unbaptized jargon, that would choke the devil -- why, that last fellow has the only intelligible name you have repeated -- they are all of the tribe of Macfungus -- mushroom monarchs every one of them; sprung up from the fumes of conceit, folly, and falsehood, fermenting in the brains of some mad Highland seannachie. The Antiquary — Volume 01
These principles and causes are what we call the intelligible or the real world; and the sensations, when they have been so interpreted and underpinned, are what we call experience. The Life of Reason
As such, he confounds modern-day screamers on both the left and the right for whom the warrior code is unintelligible.
A song will be scrambled, and downloaded simply as raw, unintelligible data.
For most people, indeed, the acts of a sex murderer are impossible and unintelligible.
Which is why he mumbled something unintelligible instead. The Sun
But when we look outside of ourselves, and listen to someone else's story, however false or unintelligible it may seem, we begin to triangulate our positions.
By the _Gazette_ report we conclude the Festival must have ended as many such meetings do; and never better expressed than by Lord Byron in his facete moments -- "then talky, then argumentative, then disputatious, then unintelligible, then altogethery, then inarticulate, and then" -- but we have done. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 532, February 4, 1832
And what Kamat calls "Prakrit" actually subsumes various Indo-Aryan languages all over the subcontinent, many of which must have been, by the time of Christ, less mutually intelligible with each other than Tamil was from Kannada at that time. Languagehat.com: HISTORY OF KANNADA.
It was a fine introduction - familiar enough to be intelligible, different enough to be intriguing.
This was "Taff" Williams, Stoker First-class, comedian tenth-class, and master of patter unintelligible (mercifully so, perhaps) to any but a bluejacket audience. A Tall Ship On Other Naval Occasions
As for price competition, it is about as real and intelligible as it is in the life insurance or banking fields.
He gave us an intelligible explanation.
They are learning about tolerance, about biculturalism and multiculturalism, about how to train for jobs, about how to broaden their minds, and about how make worthwhile interjections that are intelligible.
How much can you leave out while keeping it intelligible, he asks?
To make a country's history intelligible, the historian naturally seeks for some point of unity.
Many of these potential and actual readers were computer illiterati buying their first machine, and needed intelligible guidance.
Mr. Weston was a great favourite, and there was not a creature in the world to whom she spoke with such unreserve, as to his wife; not any one, to whom she related with such conviction of being listened to and understood, of being always interesting and always intelligible, the little affairs, arrangements, perplexities, and pleasures of her father and herself. Emma
The talking of the people was a sustained murmur from which now and then a few intelligible words escaped: a greeting, some bit of raillery, a reprimand to a horse, an oath.
Or at least it's the shtick that sets the tone for the evening's witty and intelligible discourse.
Studies show that a person is more intelligible to an individual who can both see and hear them than for either method alone.
As it turns out, this is not a popular view: already Russell (1923) argued that the very idea of wordly indeterminacy betrays a “fallacy of verbalism”, and some have gone as far as saying that de re indeterminacy is simply not “intelligible” (Dummett 1975: 314; Lewis 1986: 212) or ruled out a priori (Jackson 2001: 657). Wild Dreams Of Reality, 3
In comparison, my grandfather's voice was a deep, rich Irish burr that was almost unintelligible, although it was infinitely easier to understand in person that it had ever been over the phone.
In fact, there has been some work done on the issue of Israel's relationship to the Church recently; more specifically, trying to (figurally) read the church as divided Israel in some intelligible and helpful way. Inhabitatio Dei
These are for ever crying out, Why did he not employ the word impulsion, which is so well understood, rather than that of attraction, which is unintelligible? Letter XV-On Attraction
I think what might even be more interesting for drug development is to pursue what they all pharmacogenomics in the clinical trials world, where they know that certain subpopulations of humans, genetically, respond differently to drugs, and it may be possible to make chips that effectively represent whole populations and thus you could be doing that kind of pharmacogenomics, if you like, but doing it on, you know, thousands of little micro channels on a chip the size of your hand, and multiplexing and doing (unintelligible). NPR Topics: News
According to my teachers, even the Oral Law, the commentary that makes the written Torah intelligible, was deduced by the sages according to definite exegetic principles also given at Sinai.
Attacked and defended by a thousand politicians and pamphleteers, it has held the field as the only theory which provides an intelligible, self-consistent, workable system.
His fortnightly diary column for L' Espresso has consistently aimed to make upmarket literature intelligible to the ordinary reader, as well as arguing the case for taking popular art forms seriously.
The active intellect "illuminates" the object of sense, rendering it intelligible somewhat as light renders colours visible. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent
Nevertheless, morality is intelligible only as a social discipline based on general rules impartially applied.
God is what I call positively mysterious: intelligible, but inexhaustible and hence not fully comprehensible. Archive 2007-03-01
Artificially generated speech now sounds more human, and has become more intelligible.
I may leave parties a little earlier than usual, when the chat gets unintelligible to anyone who isn't hammered.
To me it is unintelligible that the full tide of glibbest chatter can be stopped at a moment in the midst of profuse good living, and the Giver thanked becomingly in words of heartfelt praise. Doctor Thorne
That makes the lyrics intelligible without reducing the music's intensity.
And that was in the papal apartments Eduardo Martinez Somalo, the camerlengo, who was one of the key players in this transition period, the cardinal, was in -- the inside the papal apartments, along with several other high church officials and Dr. Renato, who's an (UNINTELLIGIBLE), the pope's physician for the last 26 years. CNN Transcript Apr 3, 2005
This anthropopathy is a figure by which God is interpreted to us after the intelligible forms of humanity. Biblical Evidence for Catholicism
I had told my friends to warn their parents so they were prepared for his unintelligible conversation. Times, Sunday Times
It's as unintelligible a piece of artspeak and psychobabble as I have ever stumbled through, and a dictionary is not supplied.
Sometimes I'd hear a melodic fragment or a texture, or it might sound like voices muttering in an unintelligible language.
The secret of reducing all this to an intelligible model is something called queuing theory, an area of applied mathematics that developed decades ago as a way of thinking about the telephone network, but which only recently has been developed for thinking about computers by—surprise! Economic Principals
Eastern women the notion of deforming the figure for the sake of appearance only is unintelligible and repulsive. The Golden Chersonese and the way thither
But the reason why this objection is so unanimously brought against our doctrine of time, and that too by disputants who cannot start any intelligible arguments against the doctrine of the ideality of space, is this -- they have no hope of demonstrating apodeictically the absolute reality of space, because the doctrine of idealism is against them, according to which the reality of external objects is not capable of any strict proof. The Critique of Pure Reason
Her fits of passion, which are awful to behold, and are usually called teething, are no such thing; they are her natural exasperation, because we don't understand her, though she is talking an intelligible language. Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens
If so, Catania is hosting a "Sign-Making Open House" on Friday evening at his Dupont Circle headquarters, complete with "refreshments and sign-making materials so that you can state your thesis in the most intelligible way possible. Catania offers sign-making help for Stewart/Colbert rally
Even when the results are unintelligible, the method can indirectly generate fresh thoughts and sometimes laughter.
History, thinking that the details might be more intelligible to you than to me, and might give you some insight into literary and social, as well as bibliopolical relations. The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I
Unintelligible Latinisms litter the insides of the booklet, awkwardly coupling with sepulchral imagery.
Her often unintelligible language is as nascent as the land itself; sounds not yet words gurgle like the very volcanoes that created her native surroundings.
Cassis, caulis, fascis, finis, etc. (containing the list of masculine nouns of the third declension ending in-is), but long involved rules of syntax also that are absolutely unintelligible except to the initiated and those who are by nature the children of light. In the days of my youth when I was a student in the University of Virginia, 1888-1893.
If the positions of farmer and kills are interchanged, the sentence reads kills the farmer the duckling, which is most naturally interpreted as an unusual but not unintelligible mode of asking the question, does the farmer kill the duckling? Chapter 5. Form in Language: Grammatical Concepts
Which is why he mumbled something unintelligible instead. The Sun
Mr. Carney is also a mushmouth who renders the lyrics of his songs all but unintelligible instead of projecting them clearly, thereby making the score even less dramatically potent. Spidey's Green Glimmer of Hope
Emerson mumbled something unintelligible into the orifice in question. LION IN THE VALLEY
I had to clear my throat a few times before I could give him an intelligible reply.
The audio is full, with intelligible dialogue and good use of bass in the music.
Yet, there always remains a broad range of intelligible events, and the process is rational in that it reveals an order of evident correspondences and undeniable finalities: in the inorganic world, between microstructure and macrostructure; in the organic and animal world, between structure and function; and in the spiritual world, between knowledge of the truth and the aspiration to freedom. ID/Evolution
Enough of the biting social satire and back to the task of understanding our unintelligible cousins across the pond.
We need an explanation that is readily intelligible to ordinary people.
The name "earwig" itself is sufficiently puzzling, but "coach-bell" seems, if possible, still more utterly unintelligible. Notes and Queries, Number 24, April 13, 1850
Prices, timetables, documentation requirements, booking advice, and most any other factoid you could possibly need are perfectly intelligible and easy to find.
He contrived to preserve, in the most abstrusely philosophical of these writings, a simplicity and clarity which, although they have not commended him to professional metaphysicians, make his attitude to the problems of metaphysics extremely intelligible. Thomas Henry Huxley; A Sketch Of His Life And Work
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The reply, a deep but rapid burst of alien garble, is unintelligible.
[…] The idea that some Colonel Sanders type in a society that forbid slaves from reading would write to his former fieldhand and expect an intelligible reply is absurd. Rad Geek People's Daily
He waged war against the mountains of unintelligible gobbledygook that is regularly dumped on schools by government bureaucrats.
The soul is not a supersensible object of whose faculties and powers we can acquire knowledge but an idea that makes our practice of ascribing experiences to ourselves intelligible. Kant and Leibniz
Boyle, along with his fellow mechanical philosophers, argued for his position on the grounds that it was clear and intelligible compared to rival systems such as Aristotelianism and those developed in chemical and related contexts by the likes of Paracelsus. Atomism from the 17th to the 20th Century
All she got in reply was some slurred, unintelligible mumbling.
Video showing rapid and intensive change, for example, will need frequent reference frames to maintain an intelligible motion sequence.
Mr. BROWN: It's a very emotional (unintelligible) and not in a kind of mawkish way either. Ten Years Gone, Jeff Buckley's Voice Lingers
The five leisurely tracks on Sun Araw's "Off Duty/Boat Trip" (Woodsist) sink into some primordial psychedelic murk: a realm of fuzztone and stereo-panning echoes, wah-wah guitars and stray percussion, throbbing bass lines and distant, barely intelligible vocals. NYT > Home Page
We need an explanation that is readily intelligible to ordinary people.
The majority also relies on O'Reilly v. Morse, citing the Court's rejection of Morse's Claim 8 for "the use of the motive power of the electro or galvanic current, which I call electromagnetism, however developed, for making or printing intelligible characters, signs or letters at any distances .... Groklaw
What comes from the roof," may not be very intelligible; still _roof_ is the word in the original edition of Gibbon, where it corresponds to _toit_ in Notes and Queries, Number 54, November 9, 1850 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
In this way More sought to demonstrate that the idea of incorporeal substance, or spirit, was as intelligible as that of corporeal substance, i.e. body. The Cambridge Platonists
They have presented a declaration of 12,000 pages that did not provide any new evidence, and they need to be active, not to (UNINTELLIGIBLE) the word proactive, in order to convince the Security Council through us that they do not have any more weapons of mass destruction, or else if they are there, that they deliver them so that they can be destroyed under our supervision. CNN Transcript Jan 16, 2003
This absorption in such pursuits, totally unintelligible to his schoolfellows, who were then totally ignorant of mathematics, procured him a not very complimentary nickname.
His fury was so great he could hardly speak. He growled some unintelligible words at Pete.
Reply Obj. 1: The concupiscible is a part of the sensitive, not of the intellective appetite, as proved in the First Part (Q. 81, A. 2): wherefore the love which is in the concupiscible, is the love of sensible good: nor can the concupiscible reach to the Divine good which is an intelligible good; the will alone can. Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
And actually what he does (unintelligible) is he's kind of craved dismay, really, at everything that he found. Tina Brown's Must-Reads: The Dead And The Undead
Christian's answers -- the more intelligible parts of them -- were a stratified succession of _yes_ and _no_, and as he was a man naturally polite and acquiescent, the assentient strata were of more frequent occurrence; but of course, beyond showing his good-will, such answers were of no practical value. Ice-Caves of France and Switzerland
Related: "A world series of assassins may be the movie's five-word pitch but, burdened with an unnecessarily complicated and aggressively insistent backstory and hence immediately unintelligible, Smokin 'Aces is one busy-busy-busy movie," writes J Hoberman in the Voice. GreenCine Daily: Interview. Joe Carnahan and Jeremy Piven.
To him, a perfectly unintelligible will is a thing of beauty and a joy for ever; especially if associated with some kind of recondite knavery. The Eye of Osiris
I can't promise that I'm particularly intelligent in it, or even particularly intelligible, but if ye want to hear me blethering on about stuff and nonsense, well ... enjoy. posted by Hal Duncan | 2: 53 PM Starship Sofa Interview
Critical to presential knowledge is the Porphyrian doctrine of the unity of the intellect, the intellecting subject and its intelligible object. Mulla Sadra
But it does mean that in contemporary historiography, the sign of history has become less the real than the intelligible, an intelligibility achieved through the production of historiographical discourse according to narrativist principles, hence always flirting with the “fictive” that is intrinsic to the operation of narrative. The Volokh Conspiracy » Taking the Washington Post to School
But it did warn the agency of " an on - going requirement of intelligible administrative policy. ".
Unintelligible legislation is the negation of the rule of law and of parliamentary democracy.
He said something unintelligible and shoved the money back at me. The Other Side of Me
Lastly, the law of the long endurance of allied forms on the same continent, — of marsupials in Australia, of edentata in America, and other such cases, — is intelligible, for within a confined country, the recent and the extinct will naturally be allied by descent. On the Origin of Species~ Chapter 14 (historical)
He adds however, that anyone seeking to make the doctrine intelligible, is inevitably going to tilt towards either modalism or tritheism. Trinity
Are all of Shakespeare's villains ' motives intelligible?
It's frankly ridiculous to suggest that, even with perfect articulation and diction, the singers' words will all be intelligible.
Almost all my sorrow, and wasted money, has resulted from not writing down, in intelligible form, what I handloaded and how it did. How Handloading Can Improve Your Love Life
Why I was rambling a spew of unintelligible garble, I had not a clue.
As the term bluff may not be understood, an explanation will render the application more intelligible. Travels in the Interior of America, in the Years 1809, 1810, and 1811
His reply was barely intelligible.
As characterized by Vargha-Khadem's team, the affected KE's speech is effortful, “sometimes agrammatical and often unintelligible” (Watkins et al. 2002: 453), and shows impairments not just in morphosyntax (e.g., regular plural and past tense endings) but also in the formation of irregular past tenses Innateness and Language
He came across something that struck me as intelligible.
This admission involves, consciously or unconsciously, the admission of all the principles contended for in 'Life and Habit'; principles which, if admitted, make the facts of heredity intelligible by showing that they are of the same character as other facts which we call intelligible, but denial of which makes nonsense of half the terms in common use concerning it. Evolution, Old & New Or, the Theories of Buffon, Dr. Erasmus Darwin and Lamarck, as compared with that of Charles Darwin

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